Desmond described the Island as a snowglobe after experiencing navigational difficulties trying to escape it.
Desmond had tried to flee the Island in his boat, but he steered due west rather than the necessary bearing. As a result, he arrived back at the Island.
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JACK: So, before you ran off, I guess you just forgot to mention that you still have a sailboat. Why'd you come back? DESMOND [laughing]: Do you think I did it on purpose? I was sailing for two and half weeks, bearing due West and making 9 knots. I should have been in Fiji in less than a week. But the first piece of land I saw wasn't Fiji, was it? No. No, it was here -- this, this island. And you know why? Because this is it. This is all there is left. This ocean and this place here. We are stuck in a bloody snowglobe. There's no outside world. There's no escape. So, just go away, huh. Let me drink. |
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Other snowglobes
- A page in Hurley's Spanish comic book showed a dome covering a magical city.
- A snowglobe was on the counter of the shop where Michael pawned his watch in Meet Kevin Johnson.
- There was a large bluish globe on the top shelf of the bookcase in Aaron's bedroom ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
Cultural references
- The NBC serial drama St. Elsewhere (1982-1988) featured a Boston hospital and its staff that were revealed, in the final episode, to exist only inside a snowglobe, imagined by an autistic boy. Lost later referenced this type of twist ending in "Dave", suggesting that the Island was Hurley's hallucination.
- Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen, which Lost writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach called a topic of much discussion among those of us in the writers’ room," contained a few references to snowglobes. One character dropped a snowglobe as a child in a scene similar to Sun's in "Further Instructions". The character imagined the inside of the snowglobe as a "whole world; a world inside the ball" and adds, "I figured inside the ball was some different sort of time. The comic also featured a tropical utopia Antarctic base shielded by massive glass hemisphere from the snow outside.